2025-06-11

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The Holsteins visit the Grand Canyon.

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m_f@discuss.online · 14 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Some background on this comic:

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A few days after this cartoon was published, I started getting a considerable amount of reaction from people who enjoyed it. But I found it interesting that, without exception, they were enjoying it from a different standpoint from the one I had intended. If you look at the enlargement of the two little calves, you'll see that one of them is doing the old hoof-behind-the-head trick to its sibling. Apparently, it was just too subtle in the original. (In fact, it sort of looks like the one calf is just wearing a ribbon.) I wish now I had developed this into a series of places the Holsteins had visited. ("The Holsteins visit Three Mile Island" would have been interesting.)

m_f@discuss.online · 10 pts · 1y

Looks like they updated the comic at some point to make it more clear. Today's post has a little strip of white that's not there in the original.

dan1101@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

I always thought the hoof was a bow.

I enjoyed the comic as an absurdist satire of American family life.